News: Anime, piracy and profits

An interesting read about how the animé market is surviving and adapting to the piracy world compared to Hollywood Studios.

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Source - CNN

Windows: PowerShell

Well Microsoft has released a new Shell command system called PowerShell. It's in Beta and is supposed to replace(?) the Cmd.exe shell in Vista. I've been playing with it and it looks like a nice step up to the Cmd.exe Shell. Lots of possibilities and such.

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PowerShell Download

Movie: Star Blazer Movie

Rumors has it that there will be a Star Blazer live action movie.

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Source - The Movie Blog

Movie: X-Men 3 poster

Cool: Voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents, written some 600 years ago by an unknown author in an unidentified script and unintelligible language.

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Source - Wikipedia

Health: Sex Is Good For You

Well, who did not know that?!

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Source - The Age

OMG, Robert Jordan Diagnosed With Amyloidosis!

My favorite Fantasy series Wheel of Time's author is diagnosed with Amyloidis. A rare disease that could kill him.

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Wheel Of Time Website

How To Keep A Band-Aid To Stay On Your Fingers

Wow, Japanese have videos on everything!

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Video

Google: Artist's family asks Google to take down today's 'painted' logo

Really, is it that bad that Google honors the artist work by creating a Google logo by using elements of his work? I'd be glad that Google would use my artwork to make their logo. My god it's free exposure. When the logo was out yesterday, I was impressed, not having seen his work before and not knowing who he was, I was introduced to his artwork by Google. They even had a search of the artist work and name on google when you would click on the Google logo. It's not like they were trying to steal his style, they were given him credit as best as Google could; front page exposure and permanent search link of him.

People complain too much sometimes. Google I endorse what you have done and if you want to use my stick figure style drawing for your logo, I would be honored.

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Source - Mercury News

Cool: How to Instantly Stop a Baby from Crying

Wow this is cool.

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Video

Video: The Flintstones for Winston Cigarettes!

Weird and sad!

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Video

Cool: Mil 24 Hind Replica

This guy made a replica of the Mil 24 Hind which was flown by Soviet Forces in Afghanistan in 1987. Every piece was made to re-create this helicopter. It's simply amazing the time (8000-10,000 hours) and energy that was put into this!





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PreciseModeling

Robot: Robo-One In Space

There is this competition in Japan called Robo-One. It's like sumo wrestling robots. Well the organizers have decided to bring Robot fighting to the next, obvious, step... In space!

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Source - Engadget
Robo-One official site (Japanese)
Robo-One in space promo
Robo-One videos

Gadget: Sexy Robot

As of now, all robots were male looking. Very rare do you see a female robot. Well Takahashi-san is changing this by introducing a female robot that should be available in 13 months.

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Source - Gizmodo

Water Drops Bounce Into Action

What happens if you let a drop of water fall gently onto a water-repelling surface? Physicists in France and the Netherlands who tried the experiment were surprised by what they saw. They found that a violent, ultra-fine jet of water emerges from the drop, moving at up to 40 times the drop's initial impact speed.

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Source - PhysicsWeb

Movie: The Promise (Wu ji)

This movie looks to be really good. The images are just amazing!



I hope that it's going to be shown on the IMAX theaters.



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Official Website
Trailer

Movie: Spider-Man 3 Plot

Finally, Spider-Man 3 plot is revealed.

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Plot

Video: Very Cool Video Of Man Escaping

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Video